Bluetooth 2.1 simplifies pairing and cuts power consumption

Zed · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 2

Looks like another backwards compatible version is being launched:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/109194/bluetooth-21-simplifies-pairing-and-cuts-power-consumption.html
It includes provision for NFC where pairing happens when devices are brought
close together. BT is at last being taken seriously enough for usability to
be looked out. BT used to stand for "Bloody Tiresome!"

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pzboyz · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 19

Zed wrote:

> It includes provision for NFC where pairing happens when devices are brought
> close together. BT is at last being taken seriously enough for usability to
> be looked out. BT used to stand for "Bloody Tiresome!"
>
>

You can do everything you need using Bluetooth without NFC. You will see. Smile

Unless the phone manufacturers have more than one reason to add NFC this
is not going to happen.

pzboyz

Zed · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 2

Thus spake pzboyz:
> Zed wrote:
>
>> It includes provision for NFC where pairing happens when devices are
>> brought close together. BT is at last being taken seriously enough
>> for usability to be looked out. BT used to stand for "Bloody
>> Tiresome!"
>
> You can do everything you need using Bluetooth without NFC. You will
> see. Smile

> Unless the phone manufacturers have more than one reason to add NFC
> this is not going to happen.
>
> pzboyz

If the power consumption has been reduced to 20% (?!) on intermittent
devises, I wonder if ZigBee will ever really fly. In all honesty, I don't
follow the subject closely enough to know if NFC pairing is that important
or not. Simpler pairing must be A GOOD THING as with the non-passcode method
proposed & already used by SE.

--
Basically, I hate people who preface nearly every sentence with the word
'basically'!

fabien · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 2

in fact NFC will be in the phone in the furtur but as a "cash
distributor". There is a big test in atlanat in the stadium about
it...
But for the simple pairing, on of the 6 improvement from the BT2.1
allow the user to simplify the pairing stage!

pzboyz · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 19

fabien wrote:
> There is a big test in atlanat in the stadium about
> it...

There have been many of these test's in many countries of the world over
many years. So far, it has not happened. NFC is a technology looking for
a problem to solve. Sad